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The first replicating life-forms on the planet may have originated deep underground, a study has suggested.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 8, 2013, 22:13
Eminent physicist J V Narlikar has said there is a clear possibility of life existing elsewhere in space apart from the earth.
Last Updated: Monday, November 18, 2013, 10:52
Two billion years ago, the Earth system was recovering from perhaps the single-most profound modification of its surface environments: the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans.
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 19:30
Meteorite bombardment left large craters on Earth that contained water and chemical building blocks for life, which ultimately led to the first organisms 4 billion years ago, an Indian-origin scientist suggests.
Last Updated: Saturday, September 14, 2013, 11:49
Researchers have now offered an intriguing new view about how life began on Earth.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 14, 2013, 12:11
A new research has studied how anomodonts responded after Permian mass extinction, about 252 million years ago.
Last Updated: Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 19:01
Earth may have been warm enough to support life more than 3 billion years ago, even though the Sun was 20 per cent dimmer than today, a new study has found.
Last Updated: Sunday, June 9, 2013, 22:35
The impact of comets crashing into Earth`s surface may have provided the energy to create molecules that formed the building blocks of life, scientists say.
Last Updated: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 15:08
Researchers say life first appeared about 10 billion years ago - long before Earth, which is believed to be 4.5 billion years old.
Last Updated: Friday, April 5, 2013, 22:36
US astronaut Sunita Williams hinted at the possibility of life outside earth today, saying that people on earth must not be arrogant about the fact that they are the only living creatures.
Last Updated: Monday, August 27, 2012, 17:28
Scientists are closer to demonstrating that DNA can form spontaneously from chemicals thought to be present on the primordial Earth suggesting that DNA could have predated the birth of life itself.
Last Updated: Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 13:06
Two Indian-origin scientists-led team claims to have shown the plausibility of a new pathway to life`s chemical building blocks, in what may help recreate the chemistry that might have allowed life to emerge on Earth.
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